From c3d2903d78f48da03cad5aba72f23c925a264bd7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rohith Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2018 18:22:21 +0530 Subject: [PATCH] Add topic "wireshark feature" (#21460) * Add topic "wireshark feature" * corrected casing, spelling, grammar --- guide/english/security/wireshark/index.md | 9 +++++++++ 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+) diff --git a/guide/english/security/wireshark/index.md b/guide/english/security/wireshark/index.md index 8fe49ccf55..68d5eb1f28 100644 --- a/guide/english/security/wireshark/index.md +++ b/guide/english/security/wireshark/index.md @@ -5,6 +5,15 @@ title: Wireshark Wireshark is an open source network analyzer application that is available for Linux, macOS and Windows. It allows you to "sniff" [packets](../../network-engineering/packets/) being sent to and from different nodes on a network. +### Features of wireshark: +* Supports more than 1,000 protocols +* Ability to do live capture and offline analysis +* Has the most powerful display filters in the industry +* Captured network data can be displayed via GUI or via a command-line TShark tool +* Able to read/write many different capture file format such as tcpdump (libpcap), Network General Sniffer, Cisco Seure IDS, iplog, Microsoft Network Monitor, and more +* Live data can be read from IEEE 802.11, Bluetooth, and Ethernet +* The output can be exported to XML, PostScript, CSV, and plaintext + #### Why use Wireshark? Wireshark is a powerful tool, you might use it to: + Learn about how different protocols are used in networking